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May 22, 2012

• Focus on Sustainability: Forest Management  |   Video
  • The number and intensity of wildfires raging across Arizona has a lot to do with the United States’ forest management policies. We’ll examine some of those policies, and efforts to reform them, with Diane Vosick of NAU’s Ecological Restoration Institute, Dr. Mary Lata of the U.S. Forest Service, and fire history expert Stephen Pyne of ASU’s School of Life Sciences.

May 14, 2012

• Arizona Wildfire Update  |   Video
  • Helen Graham, Deputy Fire Staff Officer for the Tonto National Forest, provides an update on Arizona’s current wildfires and a forecast for the summer fire season.

June 15, 2011

• Forest Restoration  |   Video
  • Supervisors from counties ravaged by two of the worst wildfires in state history discuss their support of the Four Forest Restoration Initiative.

June 13, 2011

• Forest Health  |   Video
  • Experts say Arizona’s catastrophic wildfires are the result of unhealthy, unnaturally dense forests that are the product of America’s forest management policies. The Four Forest Restoration Initiative (4FRI) is an effort to create healthier ecosystems on parts of four Arizona forests. Learn about the challenges facing 4FRI from stakeholders Wally Covington, Regents’ professor of Forest Ecology and executive director of the Ecological Restoration Institute at Northern Arizona University; Henry Provencio of the U.S. Forest Service; Ethan Aumack of the Grand Canyon Trust and a representative of the Center for Biological Diversity.

July 1, 2008

• Fire Conditions and Restrictions  |   Video
  • As the forested areas of the state return to dry conditions, the danger for wildfires increases. Is Arizona prepared? State Forester Kirk Rowdabaugh updates us on fire conditions and restrictions throughout our state.

November 13, 2007

• Fire Prevention
  • Fire officials say it’s time to implement the “firewise” practices of creating defensible spaces around homes and buildings. Helen Graham, assistant state fire management officer for the Bureau of Land Management in Arizona, discusses how people can protect themselves from potential wildfires, even in urban areas.

July 6, 2006

• Governor Janet Napolitano
  • A near record-long legislative session — with a record number of vetoes — ended last week. The governor joins us to talk about the session as well as the state’s battle with wildfires.

June 1, 2006

• Wildfire Update
  • We've had four wildfires in the past week in Arizona. State Land Department Forester Kirk Rowdabaugh will talk about the current fire situation and the upcoming fire season.

July 7, 2005

• First Thursday: The Governor on HORIZON
  • Governor Janet Napolitano is scheduled in studio for her monthly First Thursday interview. Topics include the ongoing wildfires in Arizona, the summit she is organizing on immigration, and her fight to save local military bases.

June 30, 2005

• Wildfire Update
  • The Cave Creek Complex fire has grown to over 150,000 acres. There are seven other wildfires burning in our state right now of 100 acres or more. Kirk Rowdabaugh of the State Land Department offers an update on the fire situation.

May 25, 2005

• Fire, part three of four
  • Current brush fire conditions in Arizona's desert wildland areas, coupled with the homes and businesses there, could converge into a perfect storm of wildfires this season.